the mock investigation

[airlockedmods]

[The week at the space station has trickled by slowly. Friday morning after CECE awakens everyone with her usual cheery announcement over their PIPs it's dead quiet, the oppressive threat to their homes still lingering in the air. There's still hours to go before the deadline but will someone really have the guts to go through with it in such small quarters?

Or is the better question has someone already gone through with it?]

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[damnfourthemerald]

[Gonna...need a shower gross his fur's going to mat someone will have to take a brushie to the furball. He looks down at his bloodied hand where he'd tried to wipe some off, and then back to the room sharply. This is all...super awesome.]

Someone was crass enough to kill this man and stick him in this room last night. ['Someone' implies 'not me', for the record.] Does anyone know who was here last?

And there was a...sound, something broke when he landed. I'd be careful of something sharp. [Gestures to himself.] I hope this doesn't make me evidence.

[semperperatus]

Depends. Don't wipe off your face.

[Sorry, man.]

[damnfourthemerald]

I'm not standing around all day with a dead man's blood on my face. [Fact.]

[semperperatus]

You can clean it off after we're done in here. Right now, you're evidence, so...don't.

[damnfourthemerald]

[He resists the urge to cross his arms, but he does clench and unclench fists.] Fine. The last thing I need is anyone accusing me of getting rid of evidence.

[stitch_in_time]

I don't think you'd be stupid enough to fly face-first into your own crime scene, if that's what your asking.

[Still doesn't look good, though.]

[And speaking of blood, let's take a look over the general splatter of it all. It's enough to get a good coat on Shadow, does it also look like about the amount you'd expect from a gaping stomach wound?]

[Does it look like it was actually all spilled here, is what he's looking for.]

[airlockedmods]

[It does look like about the amount you'd find from a gross stomach wound, yes.]

[stitch_in_time]

[Is there anything weird the splatter, besides judging that it floated in the air for a while before suddenly falling victim to gravity's harsh ministrations?]

[airlockedmods]

[No, it's about what you'd expect from a wound that had been left to bleed for nearly 8 hours in zero gravity.]

[stitch_in_time]

[Yeah, they probably couldn't tell if there was anything already on the floor before the gravity came back at this point anyway.]

[How about the body, any wounds besides the obvious, heavily-bled one?]

[airlockedmods]

[No other wounds. But man, that one is definitely messy enough to have gotten the job done.]

[misinforms]

I hate to ask but... it has to be done. That blood... it was from the body, yes?

[She doesn't sound that really sorry to be asking actually. She sounds very calculating and analytical about it; as if she's shoved her initial emotions back into a box for the investigation proper.]

[stitch_in_time]

Looks to be the case, yeah. Looks like whoever did this did it here. Unless we're looking at two victims.

[misinforms]

Oh no. I was referring to the blood on him, actually. He said he wasn't injured so I assumed it must have been from the body-- but that was before the body had fallen.

[damnfourthemerald]

I don't know where else it would've come from. [Okay, that was a little more ornery than anything else he's said this morning.] It was already floating in the room. Without a DNA test to be absolutely, we can only make assumptions, but I feel it's a safe one.

[misinforms]

That's not my problem with the blood. The real question would be how it got there. If it was simply from the lack of gravity or something less pleasant.

[damnfourthemerald]

There might have been a fight in this room, or someone took his still bleeding body and dumped it here. The gravity was off when I got here, presumably from whoever was last here with him.

[misinforms]

So there was blood floating around when you got here?

[It can't hurt to take his account of the incident even if it had to be looked at with a bit of suspect.]

If that was the case then there may very well have been a fight. The way he was held up there, the weapon would have sealed most of the blood from spilling.

[damnfourthemerald]

When I jumped in, I can't say I made a thorough check whether there was blood floating in the room beforehand, so yes. It was here, I went in, and now here I am with this man's blood on me.

I suppose I should be glad it wasn't worse. [Could've had a faceful of guts instead.]

[misinforms]

Yeah if it was an open wound you absolutely would have noticed blood, even if you weren't looking for it, based on the size of that hole in him.

[As someone who comes from a corpse party, she can sympathize a little.]

Not a great way to start the day.

[stitch_in_time]

Good thinkin', but the case file says the time of death was about 11pm. Awful long time for blood to stay wet like that, spread over fur.

[She's considering things though, that's good.]

[misinforms]

Ah. Yes, that's a good thought. Then it must have been produced from his wounds more recently. I wonder if it had been in the air from the time of the incident or if it was dripping from the wound more recently. It would be nice to know if there was a struggle. Normally there wouldn't be a lot of blood loss with the weapon still stuck in him like that...

[Does blood dry in no gravity air??? She knows horror well and even she doesn't know the answer to that one.]

[stitch_in_time]

[It probably should've dried, but blah blah blah technobabble blah blah blame the Overseers and Kamukura's wormhole machine probably.]

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[semperperatus]

...Could be from other impacts made to the wound or body. Zero gravity with a body that has no control over its own force and momentum? Its possible.

[So are there skid marks of blood anywhere on the walls and stuff?]

[airlockedmods]

[There are. Near one of the ladders, to be specific.]